How to get a string after another string in ObjectiveC?

Question

For example, the text is:

my name is angie merkel and Im stupid!

I'd like to get the angie merkel from the string.

How can i do this? My head is going to explode... i can't trim this string because it's a variable
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Seamus Campbell · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-26 16:41:58Z

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If the string always has the format `my name is and Im stupid!', you can do the following:

NSString *name = [[startingString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"my name is " 
                                                            withString:@""]
                  stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" and Im stupid!" 
                                            withString:@""];

answered Sep 26, 2011 at 16:41

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Seamus Campbell Over a year ago

Can you describe what you're trying to do a little more carefully? It's not clear.

Smoothie Over a year ago

I read a ".qa"-file. One line of this file is: my name is <name>;[Ah your name is <name> very interesting!] so i check if the user says "my name is" and i'd like to find out, what the user says after "my name is" and then i save this to a NSMutableDictionary

Seamus Campbell Over a year ago

So you want everything after "my name is " up until the semicolon?

Smoothie Over a year ago

yes but not until the semicolon, coz i have the variable "question" which is already until the semicolon. In the user sentence after "my name is"

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